IN THE 1850 CENSUS FOR LEE COUNTY, VA, ELIZABETH COOPER IS LISTED ALONG WITH A SON GEORGE 20, AND DAUGHTERS MARY 17, CATHERINE 14, MARTHA 12. WHILE THERE IS A CONTINUING RECORD FOR HER CHILDREN, ELIZABETH IS NOT LISTED THEREAFTER AND THE 1870 CENSUS FINDS THE CHILDREN LIVING IN SEVERAL AREA HOMES. SON GEORGE HAS MARRIED. WHILE ONE MIGHT CONSIDER THAT ELIABETH DIED IN HER EARLY FORTIES , THERE IS NO BURIAL RECORD AND NO RECORD THAT SHE MARRIED. ALTHOUGH IN LATER RECORDS, ALL LIST THEIR BIRTH PLACE AS VA, WE HAVE FOUND NO RECORD TO THIS POINT AS FROM WHERE THEY MAY HAVE COME TO LEE COUNTY. SINCE THERE ARE SIMILAR NAMES IN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY WHICH BECAME PART OF WEST VA IN 1863, THERE COULD BE A LINK BUT WE CAN'T FIND IT. IN THEIR MARRIAGES, HER CHILDREN LISTED THEIR MOTHER BUT LEFT THE FATHER VACANT? SINCE THE SON WAS GEORGE , COULD THERE HAVE BEEN A FATHER GEORGE? EXCUSE SUCH A LONG QUERY BUT OUR LIST OF VOIDS IS LONG. HAVE ANY OF OTHER COOPER LINES FOUND ANY DIRECTIONS WHERE WE MAY LOOK? LOVE YOU IF YOU HAVE! LOVE YOU IF YOU HAVEN'T! ROBERT COOPER MARSHALL, SR. BOB